Resurrection Body

The central passage describing the resurrection body of believers is 1 Cor. 15:35-54. It is likened to the transforming change which a grain of wheat undergoes when it springs forth from the ground after it has been planted. No two bodies will be alike, but all will be celestial rather than terrestrial. They will no longer be dishonored, but glorious; incorruptible, that is, no longer subject to decay and ruin; powerful, not weak; heavenly, not earthly; immortal rather than mortal or subject to death. They will be spiritual, or suited to the life of the spirit in another realm, and no longer suited to the life of the soul as now.

At the sepulchre, Peter and John saw that the body of Jesus was gone, but the linens in which He had been wrapped were undisturbed, John 20:6-8. The original language makes it clear that He had passed through the grave clothes, as He later passed through closed doors and moved instantaneously from one place to another, John 20:19.

When we see Him, we shall be like Him, 1 John 3:2. He will change these present bodies of humiliation so they become like His own glorious resurrection body, Phil. 3:20, 21. This important revelation means that we will no longer be subject to natural law after He has come to receive us unto Himself, 1 Thess. 4:16, 17.

William Evans, The Great Doctrines of the Bible, (Chicago: Bible Institute Colportage Assoc., 1912), WORDsearch CROSS e-book, 312-313.

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